Activities
Letní plovárna
On foot 24 min
A functionalist site from 1933 on Sokolský ostrov, minutes from the square, nicknamed little Budějovice Barrandov. The fifty-metre pool was to be the largest in interwar Czechoslovakia — and people swam in it a year before it was fully finished.
The lido lies on Sokolský ostrov right in the centre, a few minutes' walk from the square. After the 2010 reconstruction it has a large pool with five lanes and a slide, a children's pool with a paddling area and a spout, and a beach, and it can take fourteen hundred people an hour. Right next to it is the indoor swimming stadium. The lido is open in summer, daily from half past nine to eight in the evening.
Practical details
- On foot 24 min
- Opening hours: denně 9:30–20:00 (web, ověřeno 23. 8. 2026)
On site
- Sokolský ostrov is the whole area, not just the pool. Worth walking around — a functionalist complex from the 1930s showing how leisure was imagined then.
- Try to find where the bridge went. Period photos show people crossing in swimwear straight to the lido.
- From the island there is a good view of the confluence and it lies on the walk by the water.
- Photo: period details that remain from Chochol's design.